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Wolf: another mis-aimed shot at feminism

Promiscuities: A Secret History of Female DesireBy Naomi WolfRandom House, 1997. 272 pp., $22.95 Review by Kath Gelber With its sexualised cover (a picture of a naked, female, headless, almost hairless, skinny torso) and its sexualised title,

News briefs

Kleenex boycott A meeting of local residents and conservationists held in Apollo Bay on June 6-8 voted unanimously to reject an offer to meet with the multinational corporation Kimberly Clark about the current consumer boycott of Kleenex

Studies find changes in fish sex hormones

By Peter Montague In the early 1990s, British researchers at Brunel University in Uxbridge noticed that male fish living downstream from a sewage treatment plant near London had testes laden with eggs. The male fish had become hermaphrodites

Alan Lomax's folk odyssey

Southern Journey, Vol. 5: Bad Man BalladsVarious artists, recorded by Alan LomaxRounder Records through Festival Review by Norm Dixon Bad Man Ballads: Songs of Outlaws and Desperadoes is just one of a monumental series of recordings of folk

'One-stop' profits at Port Macquarie hospital

By Cliff Baxter Health care workers, academics and doctors have called for an inquiry into the "flagship" of the projected armada of privatised health care in Australia. They say the "good ship" Port Macquarie Base Hospital leaks like a sieve

US wages biological war on Cuba

Last October 21, the pilot of a Cuban airliner noticed a US-registered light aircraft releasing a white or greyish mist. Seven weeks later, an insect plague of plant-damaging thrips, previously unknown in Cuba, was discovered in a state farm. The

Prisoners of war

Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazski Plennik)A film by Sergei BodrovA Dendy Films release from June 26 Review by John Tognolini Memories of the Chechen-Russian war are still fresh. The towns being bombed into the stone age by Boris Yeltsin's air

Campaign to defend Tasmanian forests

Campaign to defend Tasmanian forests By Sarah Stephen and Kylie Moon HOBART — The Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement, due to be signed in the next month, was the major focus for activities around World Environment Week this year. It is

Russia's Kuzbass on the boil

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Workers in one of Russia's main industrial regions are organising themselves for a day of coordinated protest action, in what could be a landmark development for the rise of a broad, militant labour opposition to the

Outback thriller

Outback thriller Kiss or KillDirected by Bill BennettWith Frances O'Connor, Matt Day, Chris Haywood, Barry OttoSydney Film Festival Review by Brendan Doyle Slick as an inner-city haircut, this thriller road movie has a plot with as many

Students force libraries victory

Students force libraries victory By Kylie Moon HOBART — On June 10, the vice chancellor's executive at the University of Tasmania decided to postpone for at least 12 months a plan to merge the two main science libraries into the main

Loose cannons

Really?! "Like many people on the right of the Labor Party, I never believed in socialism." — Former ALP minister and current Packer flunkey Graham Richardson. Hilarious "It's funny that all roads still seem to lead to Mr Packer